Chapter 599: Raising Jie People

There is a proverb circulating in the Principality of Capricorn.

——If you want to become a master, you have to serve Capricorn well.

When he was a child, Jie Jie personally witnessed that a familiar Capricorn breeder raised Capricorns very well, and was promoted to a Capricorn officer by an Iron Knight master.

Capricorn officers are a kind of grassroots officials in the principality. Each Capricorn officer has to manage hundreds of Capricorn breeders and dozens of mountains.

In front of the Capricorn breeders, Capricorn officers are masters.

They can whip the Capricorn breeders and decide how to distribute food and various supplies.

The only [Iron Warriors] who can protect everyone only listen to the Capricorn officers - they will be stationed in each pastoral area, with a number ranging from ten to twenty people.

If you offend a Capricorn officer, you will not only lack food and drink, but you may also be driven out of the pastoral area. When you encounter a rolling snake, you may not get timely rescue from the Iron Warriors.

Everyone is afraid of Capricorn officers.

But everyone also wants to become a Capricorn officer.

Jie Jie doesn't care.

Because the acquaintance who was promoted to Capricorn officer was his father.

Out of curiosity, Jie Jie asked his father.

"Dad, how did you raise Capricorn so well?"

"Want to know?"

His father reminded him, "You are my son, can't you see that my method is no different from others?"

Jie Jie thought about it and it seemed so.

He couldn't figure it out even more.

"It's the relationship, I rely on the relationship."

His father smiled faintly: "If you have time to take care of Capricorn, you might as well spend more time to build good relationships, give gifts, and get to know the Iron Warriors and Iron Knights. I gave away almost all my wealth. Do you know why your mother ran away?"

"Didn't mom run away with another rich master?"

"That's the appearance."

His father calmly took a sip of Bobo tea: "The real reason is that I took all the things in the house to run this business, and your mother thought it couldn't succeed, and said I was crazy, so she ran away."

Jie Jie just said: "Oh."

In pastoral areas, it is normal for men and women to run away.

There is nothing else in the Principality of Capricorn, except for the low-class people who raise Capricorns outside the city, and the masters who live in the city.

It's just that the risk of escaping Capricorns is very high, and they will be recognized immediately. If there is no place willing to take them in and guarantee them, they will usually be exiled to a worse world.

Only by becoming a master can you enter the city from the pastoral area, leave this smelly and muddy place, and even live in a better world.

My father is still a little short.

As long as he is promoted from a Capricorn officer to a quartermaster, he can move to the city.

Even so, the Capricorn officer in the pastoral area is also a master who is very useful.

Jie Jie is also inevitable and has to raise Capricorns.

Under normal circumstances, he doesn't need to do this. Just like the Capricorn official boy in the pastoral area next door, he walks around with his dog every day, eats and sleeps, sleeps and eats, and grows fat and white.

His father told him: "You can't be like that, and don't be like me. To learn basic skills and live in this world, you must learn to get along with Capricorns."

"After becoming a Capricorn officer, I realized that as long as we come from the pastoral area, we are always inferior in the eyes of those masters."

"Even if you become a quartermaster, you are still an inferior quartermaster. The big men in the principality are all transferred from other worlds. Only one thing will be recognized here, that is Capricorn."

"The Capricorn in this world can give birth to the Capricorn King. The Capricorn King can travel anywhere without restrictions. Even in the most noble [Wilso] world, he will be treated like a big man. It will choose its own companions. Once selected, it will never abandon or give up for the rest of its life."

Drinking Bobo tea, the father said in an ordinary tone: "Compared to people, Capricorns are more reliable. Trust them more, don't trust people too much."

"We are surnamed Jie, and only Capricorns and us are our own people."

Going around in circles, it seems to be back to that old saying.

...

Jie Jie does not hate Capricorns.

Capricorns are monsters with a straightforward temper. They look like big sheep, with long horns and sheep-like heads. But they have a mouth full of sharp teeth, like pieces of blades, and they look very ferocious even when they smile.

Although they look fierce, Capricorns are vegetarians.

They grow from plants, and they are seeds at first. It takes many years for a Capricorn to grow from a small tree. The small tree will dry up quickly, and then the Capricorn will start to walk on the ground.

Capricorns eat popcorn grass and sour beans.

Popcorn grass is all over the world, but sour beans need to be imported from other worlds.

This sour and watery thing needs fertile soil. Most of the land in the principality occupied by popcorn grass cannot meet the conditions. Even if there are a few places where it can be planted, the quantity is not enough.

In addition to being much larger than sheep, Capricorns are different in that they can fly.

As long as they want, Capricorns will swell and bulge, become spherical, fly and float in the air.

As for why Capricorns want to fly to the sky, no one can explain it clearly.

They neither catch birds nor live in the sky. Capricorns prefer to lie on the grass, and can chew even when sleeping. Flying into the sky seems more like a pastime.

And this willful activity is also the most troublesome and dangerous time for Capricorn owners.

Because Capricorns take off, Capricorn owners have to follow them. They lie on their bulging bodies, grab the curls on Capricorns, and wait anxiously for them to land.

It is necessary to stay by the side at all times, because if Capricorn encounters strong winds or abnormal weather in the air, it may also fly far away. The Capricorn breeder must land with it and then bring it back to the pastoral area with the Bobo grass.

"Capricorns are actually very simple. Eat and drink well, brush their fur, pat and massage them, and they will think you are good. If you take good care of them, the magic energy produced by Capricorns will be more and better. If you can get good, you will be commended, get excellent, and may even be directly promoted to a Capricorn officer."

Father passed on the ancient experience passed down from mouth to mouth.

The Capricorn that Jie Jie takes care of is called [Dabai]. It flies like a huge white bubble.

Dabai is a loner and does not contact other Capricorns. Even if it flies in the air, it will fly higher and higher, as if flying with some pride and stubbornness, trying to fly out of this world.

Dabai wants to cross the sky.

Unfortunately, it is not a Capricorn king who can come and go.

Dabai became more and more silent, and even had severe anorexia. Jiejie had no choice but to tell it funny things he saw.

Who forgot to bring toilet paper when taking a shit today, who used feces to make a fire and was suffocated, who forgot to close the door and caused the house to be stolen by a rolling snake...

Dabai was still lying on the ground, with no interest in his eyes.

Jiejie finally found that it reacted to the sound of hitting stones.

So he put various stones together on a box, tied it with ropes, and hit it with the horn shed by the Capricorn.

Jiejie hit this primitive instrument, and the sounds of various stones wove a simple melody, which made Dabai slowly become active.

Strike while the iron is hot, Jiejie hit the stone piano non-stop, and the melody became more and more silky and beautiful.

Under the power of sound, Dabai regained his vitality and spirit, and he even became sociable. The nearby Capricorns would also come over and shake their heads when listening to Jiejie playing the stone piano.

Several Capricorn owners were very happy.

"This thing is incredible. Capricorns are very excited. Maybe they can get a good grade when they check their magic energy at the end of the year!"

"My fat Capricorn actually got up to run, even though he was panting... Oh my god, the son of Capricorn official is really good!"

"Great, great, what's that thing called?"

"I didn't expect Capricorns to like knocking stones so much. Why hasn't anyone said it before?"

...

Jie Jie was happy to tell the questions of the Capricorn owners.

But soon he heard the gossip behind their backs.

"That's not the case at all. I knocked on the stone for several days and it was completely useless. The son of Capricorn official lied to us and didn't tell the truth at all."

"That's right, it's useless. He must have kept something back."

"Masters just like to lie. I'm so stupid. I thought he really taught."

"If we learn it, we will become masters too. They will definitely not do anything. Masters are like this. They won't tell us these secrets."

...

Jie Jie felt very disappointed.

What was disappointing was not only that everyone thought he was a liar, but also that they did not think this was his idea at all, and thought it was a method taught by his father.

Jie Jie had a little understanding of his father's words.

It really had to start from Capricorn.

According to the legend of the Principality, Capricorn kings all possessed huge magic energy and evolved from Capricorn. As long as Capricorn itself was strong enough and had the power of mutation, it could become the king of this tribe.

If everyone had a Capricorn king, everyone might live a better life.

Jie Jie began to focus on tinkering with the stone piano.

Although others did not understand and could not play it, he knew that this was the key to making Capricorns go from being lazy to being energetic.

The key was to perfect this instrument and find the best melody, so that Dabai and the others could grow rapidly and move towards the direction of Capricorn king.

At the end of the year, as long as the quartermaster came to check the quality of the magic energy, everyone would understand!

Jie Jie continued to improve the stone piano.

He named this instrument "Jiejiaomuqin Box". The key is to use different stones to produce various tones. He has completed two melodies - "Happiness" and "Flying".

As the end of the year is getting closer, Jie Jie is getting more and more nervous and expectant.

However, instead of waiting for the inspection day, he waited for the end of the world.

On an ordinary day, the light pillars that brought death and destruction tore the sky and fell on the earth.

One after another, werewolves exuding a terrifying aura walked out of the light.

They drew their bows and shot arrows, shooting one person after another into a pool of blood, and then they waved their maces in their hands, knocking off people's hands and feet, so that everyone could not escape or resist.

The wolves tied people with ropes and tied them together like dragging animals, turning them into their slaves and property.

Those who resisted and escaped would be cruelly killed by the werewolves.

The wolves began to set fire to houses, capture and gather Capricorns, and skillfully plunder all useful property.

There was blood and fire everywhere, and wailing and screaming were endless.

Jie Jie in the distance was so scared that he was trembling all over. Dabai carried him up to the sky and hid in the cold and wet clouds.

A long time later.

When he landed on the ground again, Jie Jie saw that the ground had been burned to the point where no grass grew. The tents and houses in the pastoral area had collapsed into a pile of debris. The Capricorns had disappeared, and no one could be seen.

His father was gone too.

Jie Jie rode Dabai and began to fly in the air. He looked for traces of survivors and his father everywhere. But he only saw more people being taken away as slaves by werewolves.

The Iron Knights and Iron Warriors were slaughtered.

The city turned into ruins and rubble.

The invaders did not care about the city and the pasture, they just took away all the available people and killed all the resistance.

Each werewolf was extremely strong and difficult to resist. They easily and quickly occupied one city after another, taking all the resources they could take away - mainly Capricorns and slaves. Then they burned and destroyed the city.

In the war, everyone became equal for the first time.

There were no masters and inferiors, everyone was a captured slave.

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The wandering life of hiding from XZ made Jie Jie more and more tired and numb. He felt that it was Dabai who saved him and took him to escape more often.

The only way Jie Jie could repay Dabai was to play the piano for Dabai in the clouds.

Only by hiding in the clouds could he feel at ease without being afraid of being discovered and hunted by werewolves. The werewolves have not been able to go to heaven so far, but he didn't know how long he could hide.

Food became scarce. Dabai could eat the bobo grass on the ground, and Jie Jie also ate grass and various tree roots. Most of the food was burned by the wolves.

Jie Jie felt that he was about to collapse every time, but he could always survive. His desire to survive was much stronger than he thought.

Only when he played the wooden guitar case could he feel that he was still alive.

He didn't know what the future would be like.

But he had to live.

Gradually, Jie Jie adapted to the way of living like a mouse. He collected edibles everywhere, fought with ground snakes for sweet potatoes, fought with birds for grains, and retreated from places where werewolves appeared.

One day, Jie Jie played his beloved wooden guitar case in the clouds and enjoyed a rare moment of forgetfulness with Dabai.

A big golden mouse appeared from the clouds.

It carried a big backpack, its eyes rolled around, and looked very smart.

"Your treasure is good."

The golden-haired mouse spoke in the local dialect.

Jie Jie was stunned.

"It's mine now."

The golden-haired mouse said again: "You and your mount are also mine, I will dedicate you both to the great God Yao."

"Who are you? God Yao... Isn't the god of this world Lord Fog God?"

Before Jie Jie finished speaking, he felt that it was getting dark.

When he came to his senses again, he found himself standing in a strange place.

Surrounded by skeletons walking around, they were either wearing armor, carrying swords and shields, and some were even wearing armor and riding bone horses...

Am I dead?

Just when he was confused.

A cold female voice sounded in his ears: "This is the oracle of the great God Yao. Wanderers who have experienced hardships, are you willing to offer your faith, follow Lord Yao, and obtain the protection of the gods?"

In front of him was an elegant and solemn girl.

Her eyes were covered with black cloth, which made her delicate skin look even paler. She floated above the ground, the hem of her black robe drooped naturally, and a strange book rested on her arm like a falcon.

There has never been such a beautiful girl in the pastoral area.

Jie Jie nodded in a daze.

"Then from today on, you will be a member of the Yao tribe."

The girl said loudly: "You must follow all the norms and laws of the Yao tribe civilization and offer loyalty and faith to Lord Yao. And your life safety, personal dignity and private property will be protected and defended by the Yao tribe."

She smiled: "Welcome to join, I am Isabel, the apostle of the Yao tribe. Take your Capricorn friend to rest first. There are food, water and change of clothes in the house. If you have anything, you can discuss it with Captain Luca."

"But..."

Jie Jie stuttered: "Werewolves, those werewolves."

"Don't worry, even the Wolf God can't cross this camp."

"Go and rest, you are very tired and need to rest."

...

Until sitting in the hut, feeling the long-lost fire, warm blankets, and hot water, Jie Jie still felt that everything was unreal.

He looked at the Capricorn Dabai next to him, gently played the wooden piano box, and sang casually.

Go to sleep, go to sleep.

When we wake up, we will live differently.